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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1888
Page
1
A social event last night at 22 West Third Street hosted by Mr and Mrs Royer for Miss Emmi Fey featured lively games and a grand supper. The young guests filled the spacious parlors with energy and celebrated in a card of a cheerful evening, praised by attendees for the couple’s hospitality.
Abilene Investment Co offers to loan 100000 on farm and city property at the lowest rate. Prompt closing with no delay. Bear room First National Bank. Save Children Gry for Pitcher s Gastoria.
W N Hendricks the U P agent in this city was arrested by the city marshal for maintaining a nuisance in the form of the U P storkyarda. His trial is set for the 14th of this month. Marshal Kirkwood warned stockmen that using the U P yards would violate city ordinance.
Local items report social happenings and travel notes in Woodbine and nearby towns. Mentions of Atkinson and Smith Stowell in local business, a new passenger train conductor, cattle shipments, and residents facing illness. Widespread chatter includes missing person rumors, property moves, and budding town improvements amid scattered garbled text.
G W Canrester advertises farm loans with rates as low as the lowest and special advantages. He urges interested borrowers to visit him for land loans and notes rooms for rent at Kirby's Bank. The piece also references pumps and Kirby's Bank for headquarters.
A serialized letter describing a journey toward El Paso, glimpses of Fort Worth and Abilene, a Mexican Catholic church, the old El Paso fort, a bullfight site, and street life. Observations include architecture, priests, a view of class contrasts, schooling by Spanish girls, vendors, and street scenes as travelers compare routes and seek to reach the next station.
The clippings include a testimonial for a purifier from Damascus Georgia dated June 29 87 praising blood balm type products and referencing allergies and weather effects. Also mentions seed corn sales by J W Jenks and Blood Balm Co of Atlanta. Additional notes include a trade inquiry for a Pennsylvania property for a Kansas farm and wind assistance ads from Moilze Bros.
For sale or trade one Norman stallion and one Cleveland bay stallion both five years old. Will sell cheap or accept other stock land or city property. Apply to C. F. Mead office over Abilene National Bank. Also plows and sisters HopeGz Bros. We now have money to loan on farm property at 6 percent interest. Don't fail to see us. Sebold, Fisher & Co. Abstracts complete and reliable for Dickinson County updated daily. Blue Grass. J. H. Brappy. House Bros. We have $100,000 to loan on farm and city property at the Voleierg rates. No delays prompt. Abilene Investment Co. Beas room First Nat Bank.
Buggies announce sale of seed corn at 85 cents per bushel F. O. B. Jansen Nebraska. Sale valid until April 1 1888. Reference Jansen reference Sennene Springs Kansas at office P W Triesen & Bros.
An 19th century advertisement heavy with medical claims touts South American Nervine as a universal cure for indigestion nervous disorders and consumption with a trial bottle offered at 15 cents and a larger bottle at 1 25. Also promoted are Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for travelers and Haas Hog Ey Poultry powder for livestock. Several probate notices follow including final settlements and administrator appointments in Dickinson County Kansas with dates in 1888 and references to assignments and real estate actions.
The expiring winter treaty halts spring work and increases woodpile labor while winter wheat looks strong for a prospective excellent crop. Miss Elith Shadinger returns from Buckeye, Charlie Syesngter misses the Yaskel social, and Miss Jilly Hoover visits Keystone and Talmage. M Bryson is housebound with muscular rheumatism. Center school closes with exercises. Miss McIntyre's teaching praised. Miss Sadie Slichter visits Buckeye and Miss Buth Stagtuger of Rosale attends a large basket social at T. C. Liff’s to benefit MB church. about fifteen dollars raised. Laura Lliff visits friends at O P. Fenton’s. The Pleasant Valley Lyceum ends its work for the season.
In brief ads, Green's August Flower is praised for dyspepsia relief and general health improvement. A testimonial from Prof. J. M. Mehan touts Coanin's Cough Remedy for a child, claiming rapid relief and recommending it highly. Both promote medicinal tonics available through local druggists and stores.
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